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NAU football was previously played outdoors on natural grass at Lumberjack Stadium. [9] [10] The dome hosted the Big Sky men's basketball tournament in 1987, 1997, 1998, and 2006. For its first six years, the Walkup Skydome was the world's largest clear-span timber dome, until the completion of the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington, in 1983. [11]
The Old Headquarters Building – located east of Flagstaff in Walnut Canyon National Monument The Arizona Lumber and Timber Company Office – built in 1900 and is located on 1 Riordan Road. The Bank Hotel , originally called " The Arizona Central Bank and Hotel " – built in 1887 and located on Route 66 and Leroux Street.
The Babbitt family would be very influential in northern Arizona for decades. [35] [36] In 1899, the Northern Arizona Normal School was established; it was renamed to Northern Arizona University (NAU) in 1966. [11] On January 1, 1900, John Weatherford opened the Weatherford Hotel in Flagstaff.
NAU Lumberjacks cross country Lumberjack Stadium is a 1,000 seat multi-purpose stadium in Flagstaff, Arizona owned by Northern Arizona University . It is home to the NAU Lumberjacks women's soccer, cross country , and outdoor track and field teams.
The Weatherford Hotel in 2007; Charly's is on the left and the Orpheum is on the right. Architecturally, many of the buildings are historic, with stucco friezes; some stand out in the cityscape more than others, including the 1888 Babbitt Brothers building, the 1926 train station, and the Weatherford Hotel with its "grand two-story wraparound veranda and its sunroom". [1]
The geography of Flagstaff, Ariz., makes it a mecca for distance runners. It also could makes it an attractive training ground ahead of the 2028 Olympics.
When NAU announced Reid’s departure in February 1987, Dave Brown, the school’s co-athletic director at the time, told the Arizona Daily Sun the Lumberjacks were disappointed to lose him.
Teacher Training School (now Blome Building), 1922. Initially named the Northern Arizona Normal School, the institution opened on September 11, 1899, with 23 students, two faculty members—one, Almon Nicholas Taylor, who was also the school president—and "two copies of Webster's International Dictionary bound in sheepskin" as teaching resources. [19]